Altuve, Bregman, Springer don’t scare you? Did you not see what they did in the playoffs last year? Pretty sure Springer has homered in like 7 of his last 8 playoff games including today. Altuve would be better than anyone in our lineup not named Yelich (maybe even better than him), and Bregman put up a borderline MVP season this year. I’m terrified of their lineup. Edit: forgot about Correa too, he had a down season but it’s clear how deadly he can be. Eh, you can't cobble together players' best seasons, or if you do then we get 2011 Braun, 2017 Schoop, etc. The Astros are mediocre defensively and Bregman is their only superstar offensive player this season. Aside from Bregman and Altuve (having a down year) everyone else on that team in 2018 was worse than Travis Shaw. Altuve is not better than Lorenzo Cain or Yelich even factoring in that he plays 2B... *Edit* To be clear, I'm not underestimating these AL teams, we'd be the underdog against any of them. I just don't think the Astros can compete against the 2018 Red Sox or Yankees. You’re right that I’m basing some of my opinion off of past performance. I disagree about Altuve and defense aside (which he is still solid at) there is probably no hitter in the entire MLB that I would rather have over Altuve. Look at the 4 guys I named from today’s game alone: Springer - 2-5, 2 HR, 2 RBI Altuve - 2-5, RBI, 2 R Bregman - 1-2, 2 BB, 2 R Correa - 1-3, HR, 3 RBI, 2 BB You can’t tell me that lineup doesn’t scare you to go along with their pitching.